How far can travel mugs really travel?
A Good Thing is all about finding good homes for items that are completely fine but, for whatever reason, don’t live up to the standard of their current homes. This is precisely what happened to a batch of misprinted travel cups, and they lived up to their name – they sure did travel.
Preseli and A Good Thing come together once again to back local causes: Lambeage Hall and Granby Community Mental Health Group
Preseli is a great example of what it’s like to get the bug for doing a good thing!
Preseli is a promotional trade supplier with core values of giving back through generous donations to various charities and eco-friendly practices, reducing what they send to landfill.
How festivals can help good causes
Ever wondered what happens to all that leftover stuff at festivals? Here’s a story about how a company used A Good Thing to send some of that stuff to a good home.
Cheers to community: Bywaters donates 420 mugs to Chestnuts Community Centre
Bywaters is a sustainable waste management company. It offers recycling services, supporting the sustainability of businesses.
Bywaters has a history of generosity. It has listed several items on the A Good Thing platform, including tables and chairs, cube stools, TV stands, highchairs, and screen dividers.
Bio Laboratories partners with A Good Thing to support local charities: Together Trust and Creative Living Centre
Bio Laboratories, a dedicated supporter and annual subscriber to A Good Thing, recently made another meaningful contribution by donating to two local charities: the Together Trust and the Creative Living Centre.
Matchmade! Laptop donated to the Camrose Centre, a homelessness support charity in Basingstoke
Recently, the Camrose Centre was subjected to a break-in. Among the items taken were their much-needed laptops. That’s where SquaredUp stepped in with a generous donation of a Dell laptop.
Something to write home about: Hotel Co 51 kicks off its A Good Thing donations with a donation to a City Life Church Southampton project
In July 2024 HotelCo 51 became A Good Thing’s second-ever enterprise-level supporter: the hotel group joined our platform with 17 of its locations across the UK. The firm describes itself as striving to “put people and the planet first”, and asserts it is always looking for “new opportunities to deliver sustainable hospitality with purpose”. Not hard to see why we felt HotelCo 51 would be a great match with us here at A Good Thing!
Projecting positivity: UMi’s bright donation to Tyneside and Northumberland Mind
Projecting positivity: UMi’s bright donation to Tyneside and Northumberland Mind
From convention to classroom - local charity receives furniture from Manchester Central Convention Complex
Earlier this year, the Manchester Central Convention Complex was looking to pass on some unused furniture. Local charity Step Up MCR needed some furniture for an upcoming project.
A peculiar piece of equipment finds a new charity home
When D&G Office Interiors approached A Good Thing with the offer of an SAO dispenser, we had to look up what exactly the piece of equipment was for. Despite the rather unusual item, Homes4Cardiff requested the offer after a matter of hours!